JPH0691912B2 - Coin carrier - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a coin carrier, and is particularly effective when used as a coin lift for transferring coins from a low place to a high place.

[Prior Art] For example, in a game arcade where a coin gaming machine is installed, it is necessary to supply coins to each coin gaming machine. Transported and distributed to gaming machines.

In addition, a coin exchange is provided at a prize exchange place, a counter, or the like of a game hall in order to pump coins collected from a player to a coin transfer device.

Conventionally, as a coin lift, for example, two belts are superposed, a collected coin is sandwiched between them, and the coins sandwiched between the belts are conveyed by pivotally supporting the belts separately above. It is designed to be sent to equipment.

Alternatively, coins are fed one by one by a coin lift provided with a large number of coin buckets each having an arc-shaped coin locking portion (coin receiver) corresponding to the outer circumference of the coin.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the former case, since the surface of the coin is smooth and flat, the coins are likely to slip when overlapped, and the force for sandwiching the coin between the two belts is likely to be insufficient. Therefore, even if the coin is once sandwiched between the belts, it may slip down during transfer. Therefore, it is difficult to reliably pump a large amount of coins upward, and there is a problem that it is not possible to grasp how many coins were pumped.

Also, with the latter one, it is necessary to supply coins one by one to the coin bucket of the coin lift, so it is necessary to arrange the coins in advance. In this case, the coins tend to be clogged and one coin is used for each coin bucket. Since it can only be pumped, it takes time to pump a large number of coins, and there is a problem that a coin shortage is likely to occur in the coin gaming machine.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention provides a coin carrier capable of reliably pumping slippery coins, in particular, capable of reliably pumping up a large number of coins without being caught in the middle, and easily grasping the number of lifted coins. The purpose is to provide.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a large number of transfer bodies continuously fixed to the outside of an endless chain between side walls at predetermined intervals to form an inclined portion. A coin transporting machine for transporting coins by forming a coin transporting path having the following, and moving the transporting body by driving the endless chain, wherein each transporting body is a plane along a moving direction on a coin stacking surface side. A separation wall having a predetermined height and protruding from the flat surface portion to separate the flat surface portion into two right and left portions; and a coin locking wall having a predetermined height at the rear end side of the flat surface portion. , And is provided with two coin accommodating portions partitioned by these walls.

In addition, the front end of the transfer body is formed in a curved shape having a convex arc in the center and concave arcs on both sides thereof, while the rear end corresponds to the front end of the transfer body. Then, a concave arc is formed in the center, and both sides thereof are formed in a curved shape with a convex arc.

[Action]

In the present invention, the coin locking wall is provided on the rear side in the moving direction of the plane portion of the transfer body. Therefore, when the flat surface coin of the transfer body is placed, the transfer force is applied to the coin from the locking wall.

Here, since the transfer path is provided with the inclined portion, the coin placed on the transfer body slides down on the flat surface portion of the transfer body at the inclined portion. However, this coin is locked on this locking wall, so it does not slip down further,
Transferred while rising up the slope.

Further, when coins are piled up on the inclined flat portion and are higher than the rear wall portion, when the transfer body comes to the inclined portion, the extra coins pass over the locking wall and slide backward in the transfer direction.

Further, in the present invention, the separation wall is provided at the substantially center of the plane portion of the transfer body. Since the left and right coins can be accommodated by the separating wall, a large number of coins can be carried.

In addition, since the two coin accommodating portions are formed by the separation wall and the coin locking wall formed on the plane portion and the heights of these walls are set to a predetermined height, the height of the wall and the transportation are carried. The number of coins to be carried can be easily grasped by the relationship with the thickness of the coins.

On the other hand, in the transfer body, since the abutting portions of the adjacent transfer bodies are formed in a curved shape, the coin is not caught in the gap between the transfer bodies.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, since the transfer body has the locking wall formed behind the flat portion, the transfer body is locked even when the transfer body approaches the inclined portion of the coin transfer path for locking the coin. The coin placed on (1) can be reliably transferred upward without slipping off from the transfer body. Therefore, the coin carrier according to the present invention can be used as a coin lifter (coin lift).

Also, if the coins that overlap on the inclined part of the transfer path reach a certain height or more, the coins will slide over the locking wall and slide down, so that the transferred coins can be moved to a certain height without special arrangement. It can be transported while being stacked.

Further, in the present invention, since the separating wall is provided and the coin storing portions are formed on the left and right sides, respectively, a large amount of coins can be transferred.

Further, since the size of the plane portion of the transfer body and the height of the locking wall are made to correspond to the transferred coins, the number of transferred coins can be grasped. Then, by appropriately setting these, the transferred coins can be counted.

Further, since the gap between the transfer bodies is curved, the coin is not caught.

Further, since the transfer body is continuously provided outside the endless chain, it is not necessary to organize and supply coins to the transfer body, and a large amount of coins can be transferred.

EXAMPLES Next, the present invention will be described based on examples.

The coin lift 10 of this embodiment shown in FIG. 1 transfers game coins to a coin carrier 1 arranged at the top of an island where a coin game machine (not shown) is installed in a coin game hall or a pachinko game hall, To supply.

As shown in FIG. 2, the coin lift 10 has a plurality of sprockets 21, 22 and 23 rotatably supported and arranged in the main body 11, and a transfer conveyor 30 is attached to these sprockets 21 to 23 for transfer. A curved guide 24 and a straight guide 25 for sliding the transfer conveyor 30 are provided on a part of the outside of the conveyor 30.

Further, an output shaft of a driving gad motor 26 is connected to the sprocket 22.

The main body 11 is one in which a pair of side plates 12 arranged at a predetermined interval corresponding to the width of the transfer conveyor 30 are integrated by some connecting members, and coins collected at a counter or the like of a game hall are carried in. Coin collecting unit 11A, and a coin transferring unit 11 for transferring coins in the coin collecting unit 11A above the island.
B, a coin ejecting section 11C for ejecting the transferred coins to the coin carrier 1 arranged on the upper part of the island is provided in order from the bottom.

In the coin collecting portion 11A, a sprocket 21 is rotatably supported by a side plate 12 by a bearing member (not shown), and a sprocket 22 driven by a gad motor 26 is arranged at a position substantially horizontal to the sprocket 21.

On the other hand, a sprocket 23 is provided above the sprocket 22 in the coin ejection portion 11C.

Further, the coin discharging portion 11C is formed with a discharging slit 13 for discharging the transferred coins.

In the coin transfer section 11B between the coin collecting section 11A and the coin discharging section 11C, the transfer conveyor 30 is directly supported by the curved guide 24 in order to slidably support the transfer conveyor 30 from the outside between the sprocket 21 and the sprocket 23. The guides 25 are provided side by side along the transfer conveyor 30.

The curved guide 24 slidably supports the transfer conveyor 30 that moves upward from the sprocket 21, and imparts a predetermined inclination angle to the transfer conveyor 30, and the transfer conveyor 30.
While the slide guide 30 is sliding on the curved guide 24, its traveling direction is changed.

Here, the curved guide 24 is to the transfer conveyor 30.
Give a tilt angle of 45 degrees, and after sliding, transfer conveyor
Change the traveling direction of 30 to vertical.

The straight guide 25 guides the coins transferred to the transfer conveyor 30 sliding on the curved guide 24 to the coin discharging section 11C so as not to drop from the transfer conveyor 30 during the transfer.

The discharge slit 13 is formed on the side plate 12 corresponding to the traveling position of the transfer conveyor 30 which will be described later, and on the outside of the side plate 12 provided with the discharge slit 13, coins for discharging coins are transferred. A coin guide box 14 for leading to 1 is provided.

The transfer conveyor 30 includes an endless roller chain 31 stretched outside the sprockets 21 to 23 and a roller chain 31.
It is composed of a large number of coin buckets 40, which are transfer bodies according to the present invention, which are continuously fixed to the outside.

In order to fix the coin bucket 40 to the roller chain 31, pin links 33 provided with attachments 32 are arranged at predetermined intervals, and the coin buckets 40 are fixed to the respective attachments 32 by screws 34. Here, the coin buckets 40 are set to have a gap of 1.1 mm at a place where the roller chains 31 are linearly arranged.

As shown in FIG. 3, the coin bucket 40 includes a flat coin stand 41 and a wall portion 46, which are integrally formed of resin.

Here, polyamide (nylon 66) is used as an engineering plastic that is tough and self-lubricating, but other engineering plastics such as polycarbonate and polyacetal may be used.

The coin board 41 has left ends 42 and right ends 43 that are parallel to each other in a traveling direction, corresponding to the side plates 12 that are arranged in parallel at a predetermined interval, and is provided in the vicinity of the side plates 12. The 40 has a clearance that allows it to move smoothly.

Further, the front end 44, which is the traveling direction, is formed in a curved shape in which the center has a convex arc toward the front and both sides have concave arcs, and the rear end 45 is also shown in FIG. As described above, a concave arc is formed in the center and convex arcs are formed on both sides of the coin bucket 40, corresponding to the front ends 44 of the coin buckets 40 provided in front and rear.

As a result, the gap between the coin buckets 40 provided at the front and rear has a curved shape, which makes it difficult for the coin to be caught.

The wall portion 46 is formed to have a vertical surface protruding from one surface of the coin table 41, and is provided along the traveling direction so as to separate the surface of the coin table 41 into two parts, left and right. Wall 47
The left and right coin accommodating portions are formed by connecting the rear end 45 of the coin stand 41 and the locking wall 48 forming the rear end face at the rearmost portion of the separating wall 47.

An inclined portion 47a having a height from the coin stand 41 lowered toward the tip side is added to the tip of the separation wall 47, and an arcuate recess 47b is formed in the middle portion of the separation wall 47.

As a result, when the coin bucket 40 slides on the curved guide 24, as shown in FIG. 5, the separation walls 47 of the coin buckets 40 provided in front and rear are not in contact with each other, and the curved guide 24 is The coin bucket 40 contacts the curved guide 24 in a stable manner because the coin bucket 40 comes into contact with the concave guide 47b at two locations on both ends thereof.

A front surface 48a of the locking wall 48 has a sloped surface in which a connecting portion with the separation wall 47 is located at the most front and forms an arc with the separation wall 47 and gradually recedes toward both sides.

Here, an angle of about 70 degrees is set with respect to the side plate 12, but it may be an acute angle of less than 90 degrees, particularly 85 degrees or less.

As a result, the transferred coins move toward both sides by their own weight, but cannot move by the side plate 12 at the coin transfer unit 11B, so the coins move upward along the side plate 12 as they are, and the coins discharged above the coin transfer unit 11B are discharged. Part 1
At 1C, it can pass through the discharge slit 13 of the side plate 12,
It is automatically ejected to the coin guide box 14.

The locking wall 48 is formed with a deletion portion 49 whose both ends are shorter than the width of the coin tray 41. As a result, when the coin is locked in the coin collecting unit 11A, when the coin is in a standing state such as being vertical to the coin base 41, the coin is rolled by the locking wall 48. Since it is not transferred, it gradually moves to the outside along the inclined front surface 48a, passes through the deletion section 49 and comes off the coin table 41, so that the coin is not pinched and the transfer conveyor 30 is Move smoothly.

A recess 48b is formed in a rear portion in the middle of the locking wall 48 in order to avoid contact between the locking wall 48 of the coin bucket 40 provided in front and rear and the inclined portion 47a of the separation wall 47.

With the above configuration, in the coin lift 10 of the present embodiment, when the gad motor 26 is actuated to drive the sprocket 22 and the roller chain 31 travels, in the coin collecting unit 11A,
The coins collected at the counter or the like of the amusement hall fit into the coin base 41 of the coin bucket 40, are received by the locking wall 48, and slide on the side plate 12 to move together with the coin bucket 40.

At this time, even if the coins are stacked higher than the height of the wall portion 46 on the coin stand 41, the transfer conveyor 30 is inclined in the coin collecting unit 11A, so that the coins are placed on the wall portion.
Since it will slip over 46 and slip off, coins can be transferred smoothly without special tidying up.

Further, when the coin does not fit into the coin table 41 properly and becomes vertical to the traveling direction of the coin table 41 and the coin bucket 40, the coin does not move together with the coin bucket 40 and comes out of the deleting section 49, so that the coin collecting section. Remain in 11A.

Further, when the coin is locked only in a part of the locking wall 48 and does not fit properly into the coin base 41, the coin is disengaged from the coin bucket 40 when the side plate 12 is rolled by the force received from the coin bucket 40.

In addition, even if coins are likely to be caught between the coin buckets 40, the gap between the front end 44 and the rear end 45 of the coin bucket 40 has a curved shape, so the interval between the coin buckets 40 changes. When doing so, the coins are flipped out from between the coin buckets 40.

When transferred, the coin bucket 40 slides along the curved guide 24, but since the recess 47b is formed in the separation wall 47, it makes stable contact with the curved guide 24, and each coin There is an appropriate gap between the buckets 40, and even if the curved guide 24 causes the coin buckets 40 to be located inside the roller chain 31, the coin buckets 40 do not come into contact with each other and smoothly slide. Move.

When the coin bucket 40 slides on the straight guide 25,
Since the coin is covered by the straight guide 25, the transferred coin does not drop.

At the portion of the straight guide 25, the coin bucket 40 is substantially vertical and receives the force of moving outward due to the inclination of the front surface 48a of the locking wall 48.

When the coin is transferred to above the main body 11, the side plate 12 has the discharge slit 13 formed therein. Therefore, the coin passes through the discharge slit 13 and the coin guide box 14 to the coin carrier 1. Is discharged.

As described above, in the coin lift 10 of this embodiment, a large amount of coins can be reliably pumped without being caught in the middle, and the pumped coins can be automatically discharged.

Further, since the number of coins to be pumped can be set depending on the shape of the coin bucket 40, the management of coins becomes easy.

In the above embodiments, the size of the coin table of the coin bucket is set so that two coins are lined up. However, the size may be set such that one coin is placed on one side, or a plurality of coins are arranged in the traveling direction. Coins may be placed.

Further, although the locking wall is provided with deletion portions at both ends and is continuous, a plurality of deletion portions are formed between the locking walls so that a plurality of walls are continuously provided. Good.

Further, a through hole or the like may be formed in the flat surface portion within a range that does not impair the strength to reduce the weight.

Further, the gad motor may drive the sprocket of the coin collecting section.

Further, the number of sprockets is not limited to 3, and may be 4 or more.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a coin lift and a coin carrier showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side sectional view showing a structure of a coin lift of the present embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a coin bucket of the present embodiment. FIG. 4 is a front sectional view showing a coin discharging portion of a coin lift, and FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged sectional view showing a relationship between a curved guide and a transfer conveyor of this embodiment. In the figure, 10 …… coin lift (coin carrier), 12 …… side plate (side wall), 31 …… roller chain (endless chain),
40 …… Coin bucket (a large number of transfer bodies), 41 …… Coin stand (flat surface), 48 …… Locking wall (wall).

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A coin transfer path having an inclined portion is formed by arranging a large number of transfer bodies that are continuously fixed to the outside of an endless chain between side walls at a predetermined interval, and by driving the endless chain. A coin carrier for moving coins by moving the transfer body, wherein each transfer body has a flat surface portion along a moving direction on a coin loading surface side, and the flat surface portion protrudes from the flat surface portion. A separation wall having a predetermined height for separating the left and right sides and a coin locking wall having a predetermined height on the rear end side of the flat surface portion, and two coin accommodating portions partitioned by these walls are provided. A coin carrier characterized by 2. A front end of the transfer body is formed in a curved shape with a center portion having a convex arc toward the front and both sides having a concave arc shape, while a rear end thereof has a front end of the transfer body. The coin transporter according to claim 1, wherein the coin transporter is formed in a curved shape having a concave arc in the center and convex arcs on both sides corresponding to the ends.